26 Responses to “Open Thread”

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” P.J. O’Rourke

“We at Washington National Cathedral are striving to send a message of love and affirmation, especially to LGBT youth who suffer daily because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” he said. “We want to proclaim to them as proudly and unequivocally as we can: Your gender identity is good and your sexual orientation is good because that’s the way that God made you.”

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 2012 approved the ordination of transgender persons. The convention also approved a rite of blessing for same-sex unions, a decision that’s been a major contributor to the fracturing of Episcopal congregations. The cathedral performs same-sex marriages.

Mr. Partridge’s visit should be seen as nothing out of the ordinary, according to Integrity USA, a nonprofit that advocates for full LGBT acceptance within the Episcopal Church.

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” P.J. O’Rourke

“We at Washington National Cathedral are striving to send a message of love and affirmation, especially to LGBT youth who suffer daily because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” he said. “We want to proclaim to them as proudly and unequivocally as we can: Your gender identity is good and your sexual orientation is good because that’s the way that God made you.”

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 2012 approved the ordination of transgender persons. The convention also approved a rite of blessing for same-sex unions, a decision that’s been a major contributor to the fracturing of Episcopal congregations. The cathedral performs same-sex marriages.

Mr. Partridge’s visit should be seen as nothing out of the ordinary, according to Integrity USA, a nonprofit that advocates for full LGBT acceptance within the Episcopal Church.

Look, the last thing I want to do is be a nattering nabob of negativism, but let’s be serious.

There’s simply no reason for things to be the way they are other than rampant speculation, a bubble the likes of which has never, ever been seen before.

And bubbles ALWAYS inevitably burst.

There are so many comparisons one can make between what has been happening and what has happened before. Now past events are not a predictor of what may happen with complete certainty, but certain patterns tend to repeat.

If you’re still in the market, be careful. Diversify. And only leave what you can afford to lose in the riskier investments.

With any luck I’ll be wrong and those of you still exposed will make a ton and laugh at me. I’d like that. Really. I have what I need.

Look, the last thing I want to do is be a nattering nabob of negativism, but let’s be serious.

There’s simply no reason for things to be the way they are other than rampant speculation, a bubble the likes of which has never, ever been seen before.

And bubbles ALWAYS inevitably burst.

There are so many comparisons one can make between what has been happening and what has happened before. Now past events are not a predictor of what may happen with complete certainty, but certain patterns tend to repeat.

If you’re still in the market, be careful. Diversify. And only leave what you can afford to lose in the riskier investments.

With any luck I’ll be wrong and those of you still exposed will make a ton and laugh at me. I’d like that. Really. I have what I need.

Try and conceptualize what America will be like when people of European descent become the minority. Please don’t think for one moment these new non-white immigrants will embrace the principles and values the framers of the Constitution intended — they won’t. The fact is these new immigrants will most definitely reject freedom and liberty and favor statism. (Well, at least 4 out of five will.) Yet the Republican establishment believes the only way to stay a viable party is to grant amnesty to the estimated 12 to 28 million illegal aliens already here, and then triple the legal immigration limits from 1 million per year to 3 million. Are the Republican establishment complete morons or am I missing something?
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Try to conceptualize what America will be like when people of European descent become the minority. Please don’t think for one moment these new non-white immigrants will embrace the principles and values the Framers of the Constitution intended — they won’t. The fact is these new immigrants will most definitely reject freedom and liberty and favor statism. (Well, at least four out of five will.) Yet the Republican establishment believes the only way to remain a viable party is to grant amnesty to the estimated 12 to 28 million illegal aliens already here, and then triple the legal immigration limits from 1 million per year to 3 million.

Are those that make-up the Republican establishment complete out-of-touch morons? … or am I missing something?
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In yet another harsh blow to Barack Hussein Obama, the United
Nations, Al Gore, and the rest of the anthropogenic global warming scammers,
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Marine Warden Amie Egstad discovered
icebergs with nesting seagulls still floating in Lake Superior last Friday June
6th–two weeks shy of the beginning of summer.

Floating ice with or without seagulls is a rarity in any of the
Great Lakes this time of year, a rarity explained in a National Geographic
report that summer temperatures there will probably be colder due to another
rarity, the fact some 90% of the lakes had frozen over this past winter and a
rarity which will undoubtedly be explained by the warmists as just another
example of their catch-all phrase ”climate change.”

They invented “climate change” after they were proven wrong on
their global cooling hysteria in the 1970′s, which morphed into global warming,
and back again to cooling as Mother Earth and her sun did what they have been
doing for eons, running through their normal cyclical patterns.

The warmists figured they would cover all weather bases, everything
from droughts to blizzards, from August heat waves to June icebergs in the Great
Lakes, by attributing those and other normal weather-related events to changing
climate caused, of course, by polluting earthlings, without bothering mention
that similar events have occurred more or less on a regular schedule for about
six billion years and long before man built power plants and invented the
internal combustion engine.

It’s very doubtful that polar bears, those ice-loving behemoths of
the Arctic, will travel south to the Great Lakes to fish and breed and thrive .
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In yet another harsh blow to Barack Hussein Obama, the United
Nations, Al Gore, and the rest of the anthropogenic global warming scammers,
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Marine Warden Amie Egstad discovered
icebergs with nesting seagulls still floating in Lake Superior last Friday June
6th–two weeks shy of the beginning of summer.

Floating ice with or without seagulls is a rarity in any of the
Great Lakes this time of year, a rarity explained in a National Geographic
report that summer temperatures there will probably be colder due to another
rarity, the fact some 90% of the lakes had frozen over this past winter and a
rarity which will undoubtedly be explained by the warmists as just another
example of their catch-all phrase ”climate change.”

They invented “climate change” after they were proven wrong on
their global cooling hysteria in the 1970′s, which morphed into global warming,
and back again to cooling as Mother Earth and her sun did what they have been
doing for eons, running through their normal cyclical patterns.

The warmists figured they would cover all weather bases, everything
from droughts to blizzards, from August heat waves to June icebergs in the Great
Lakes, by attributing those and other normal weather-related events to changing
climate caused, of course, by polluting earthlings, without bothering mention
that similar events have occurred more or less on a regular schedule for about
six billion years and long before man built power plants and invented the
internal combustion engine.

It’s very doubtful that polar bears, those ice-loving behemoths of
the Arctic, will travel south to the Great Lakes to fish and breed and thrive .
. .